Saturday, December 21, 2013

So, if you bought the rights to view a movie from Amazon and the company that made the movie decides to restrict it, Amazon will pull it from your digital library? That seems like theft to me. Shame on both Amazon and Disney.

Disney has decided to pull access to several purchased Christmas
videos from Amazon during the holiday season, as the movie studio wants
its TV-channel to have the content exclusively. Affected customers have
seen their videos disappear from their online libraries, showing once
again that not everything you buy is actually yours to keep.[...]
One of the affected customers of Disney’s restrictive policy is Bill, who informed BoingBoing that the Christmas themed ‘Disney Prep & Landing’ he bought for his kids last year had been pulled from his library.
“Amazon has explained to me that Disney can pull their content at any
time and ‘at this time they’ve pulled that show for exclusivity on
their own channel.’ In other words, Amazon sold me a Christmas special
my kids can’t watch during the run up to Christmas,” Bill notes.
“It’ll be available in July though!” he adds.